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Forever Young

Synopsis

Time waits for no man, but true love waits forever.

A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.

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i'm honestly not sure if i can form words about this one. it was certainly... out there. for sure. but still good and the love story element sealed the deal. mel gibson is really good here, as well as a very young jamie lee curtis and an even younger elijah wood. i do think i liked this, it was just so weird compared to what i thought it was gonna be that i'm having trouble forming coherent thoughts, lol.

Forever Young was one of JJ Abrams’ earlier scripts. It’s a pretty charming fluffy movie with a likeable cast.

The main issue with the film that it just seems like it doesn’t have much going on. For a lot of the film there isn’t much plot. Mel Gibson is just a man who was frozen in 1939 and wakes up in present day and after that it seems like there is long stretch before anything significant happens. Then there’s a reveal in the third act that I could see coming from a mile away.

Gibson is probably at the peak of his star power and Jamie Lee Curtis is an absolute dime here. Gibson also has a pretty cute dynamic with a young Elijah Wood.

Unexpectedly charming and adventurous. Gibson's usual acting style is believable as a guy from the 30's. The kids being so heavily involved gave it that youthful energy. Young Elijah Wood landing a plane was hilarious. I wouldn't recommend running off to watch it, but there's value to be found should you stumble upon it.

25th Anniversary of the L.A. bow of Forever Young today. It would go wider a week from today on the 16th. And this was a perfectly fine PG rated family drama. I had never seen this film before today but the wife claims to have seen this in the theater. Mel Gibson plays Captain Daniel McCormick (with 3 C's!) an Airforce test pilot who gets himself cryogenically frozen after his fiancé Helen goes into a coma and wakes up 53 years later in 1992. There's a bit of manufactured drama here as naturally he starts aging rapidly as a resort of his cryostasis and the FBI is after him as well. Worth seeing for a 10 year old Elijah Wood.…

After binge watching Netflix original film after Netflix original film over the last two weeks, it’s nice to return to your average preposterously plotted 90s cryogenic resurrection drama. In this case, it’s actually quite sweet and charming for at least 80 minuts but then it turns into Benjamin Button and complete looses its way in its last third and becomes a less interesting chase film. Though it has given me the plan to check out some of those missing Mel Gibson movies on my list; as he does have something. Not sure what it is though....

If I had known that this was written by J.J. Abrams, one of my all time favourite filmmakers, I would've checked out this movie long ago! Forever Young was great. A compelling story with a terrific performance by Mel Gibson at the centre of it, as well as a very young and really excellent Elijah Wood and I loved seeing the friendship between their two characters develop. And Jamie Lee Curtis is also really good.

I was invested in the film, which really is a wonderful blend of different genres. It moves at a terrific pace, never wasting a moment and always kept me intrigued. It was dramatic, funny and heartfelt, with just the right amount of sentimentality. The directing…

The only thing I remember about this movie as a kid is my mom liking it because you got to see Mel Gibson’s butt (“it looks just like your father’s!). Whatever movie magic they were churning out in the 90’s, this thing is just oozing it. It shouldn’t have been near as good as it was (don’t even try thinking about the plot), but Gibson is just so damn likeable and Elijah Wood (no idea he was in this) and Jamie Lee Curtis are great as well.